Provider pluralism

The license fee itself is defended by many as a guarantee of autonomy and the means to
provide a direct link between broadcasters and the public. As Papathanassopoulos (2007:
156) argues, in contrast to the license fee, “Direct public or government funding may,
in one way or another, seriously affect public broadcasters’ independence, or in the best
case, the public perception of their independence.

This book is based on a doctoral thesis completed at the Faculty of Law,
University of Cambridge. It benefited from research funding provided
by Gonville and Caius College and the Faculty of Law in Cambridge,
and from the hospitality and generous assistance of Professors Jürgen
Basedow and Reinhard Zimmermann during a period at the Max
Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in
Hamburg, and of Professor George Bermann during a period as a
Visiting Scholar at Columbia University....

The DAC Reference Document on Poverty and Health, jointly published by the OECD
and the World Health Organization (WHO), is the outcome of a joint effort by DAC
members working together through the DAC Network on Poverty Reduction. It builds on
bilateral agency experience and the work of leading organisations such as the WHO, the
World Bank and other United Nations agencies as well as non-governmental
organisations.